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Watch: Thunder Road 1958 123movies, Full Movie Online – A veteran comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business. He has to battle big-city gangsters who are trying to take over the business and the police who are trying to put him in prison..
Plot: Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin (Robert Mitchum) makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon (Trevor Bardette), but won’t let his younger brother Robin (James Mitchum) join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan (Jacques Aubuchon), who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett (Gene Barry), who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.
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Ratings:

	6.6/10 Votes: 3,814
	70% | RottenTomatoes
	73/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 36 Popularity: 6.261 | TMDB

Reviews:

Thunder Road 50th Anniversary
I was 14 when I first viewed “Thunder Road” at a local drive In in North Georgia. It was in June 1958 after the movie was released in May of that year. The movie was an immediate smash hit with viewers that night, many of whom were in the “whiskey” business and who had taken the night off to see the film. After the show the exit from the drive in was blackened by the burning rubber left by many of the patrons leaving the premises, several of whom owned “whiskey cars” of equal or greater horsepower than those in the film. Since that night I have seen the movie many times and it always brings back great memories of the era. 2007 will be the 50th anniversary of the filming of the movie and 2008 will be the anniversary of its release date. Wouldn’t it be interesting if someone or some company put together a 50th Anniversary Thunder Road event like the recreation of the cars in the movie along with special appearances at regional car shows, complete with car magazine articles and perhaps even a road test of the vintage autos. The re-release of the DVD to include the out takes would also be popular. Who knows what MGM and NASCAR could do with a team effort? WHB

Guts, Blood, Booze, and Octane.
I understand this was Robert Mitchum’s baby from the beginning. He wrote the music, sang the songs, chose the cast and crew, did Princess Aurora’s pas de seul in the Sleeping Beauty sequence, and managed to shoot down four Zero fighters in one pass.

I grew up in a subculture where cars and courage were much admired and this film has plenty of both. But I didn’t enjoy it that much the first time around and, more recently, have found that my appreciation of it hasn’t increased much.

As the defiant, whiskey-running hero with the hopped up 1950 Ford, Mitchum is fine. He strides through the movie in that bulky, slightly swaybacked way of his. But he really doesn’t get much of a chance to show his chops, as he did in, say, “Night of the Hunter” or “Farewell, My Lovely,” or “Cape Fear.” He’s more of a monument than a human figure.

Nobody else rises above “below average” — certainly not Mitchum’s son, James, who seems to be suffering a serious case of exopthalmia. Keely Smith has a smooth voice that’s weak but polished. I like her. There’s something anthropological about her features, but she can’t act. Most of the supporting cast are embarrassing. I winced, watching the old timers sitting around, whittling wood, and trying to decide whether to defy the corrupt criminal organization that’s trying to invade their generations-long enterprise in the North Carolina hills.

Worst of all, the director has almost completely failed to capture the ethos, the atmosphere, of the Appalachian hill country. In the 1950s, Asheville had an accent that nobody could make up. Tomatoes were “maters”, and bread became “braid.” It’s absent here. You get a much better feeling for the South in films like “Cool Hand Luke” (shot in California) and “In the Heat of the Night” (shot in Illinois).

I wish it had been better. The script should have included some exposition on whiskey making and whiskey running but much of that is just plain skipped over. Someone flips open the hood of that Ford and men gaze lovingly down at the engine (the “mill”, which has a “racing cam”). The engine appears to have three carburetors, but we don’t know what we’re looking at, or why it’s so special, or why extremely high speed is necessary on twisting mountain roads. I expect even racing car enthusiasts may be disappointed. At any rate, there is a spectacular crash at the end.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 32 min (92 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Director Arthur Ripley
Writer James Atlee Phillips, Walter Wise, Robert Mitchum
Actors Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera Mitchell BNCR
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm